Quilters Calendar & Guild Network

resources for quilt guild volunteers

Wisconsin

Jennifer Falkowski

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Home: Madison, Wisconsin

Jennifer Falkowski is a textile designer and indigo dyer. She specializes in traditional Japanese shibori patterns. Jennifer teaches classes in and around Madison WI and co-runs the popular yearly Deep Into Indigo Retreat in Westby WI. She is a first rate speaker for quilt guilds and shops. Her enthusiasm and love for indigo dye is contagious. You can find out more about Jennifer
on her website

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Cheryl Schenck

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Home: Madison, Wisconsin

Cheryl is a favorite among students! She teaches quilting classes and is a certified TuffetSource affiliate as well as a certified McTavishing instructor. She teaches classes ranging from beginning quiltmaking to free-motion quilting.

One hour lectures include “Tuffetmaking: From First Stitch to Last Staple,” “McTavishing,” and “Bindings, Labels, and Sleeves, Oh My!”

Read more on her website unSpooled.

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Chris Kirsch

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Chris-Lynn-KirschHome: Watertown, Wisconsin

Author of Repliqué Quilts, Snuggle & Learn Quilts for Kids, Compass Capers and Where do I Start With Fiber Art?

Chris’ “no fear” attitude shines through in her enthusiasm for teaching classes on machine appliqué, free motion quilting, beginning fiber art, and designing and stitching Mariner’s Compass variation quilts. She also offers a variety of lectures meant to entertain and inspire.

Visit Her Website

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Joanie Zeier Poole

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JoanieZ-P2Home: Madison, Wisconsin
Specialty: Heirloom Machine Quilting

Joanie Zeier Poole, is an award-winning quilt maker, teacher, pattern designer and author. Over the past ten years, she has taught thousands of students to use their sewing machine to join fabric layers into quilts. She recognizes that magic can happen in the classroom because it happened to her! As a student of master domestic machine quilter Diane Gaudyski, Joanie elevated her skill to a level that she taught alongside her mentor at the Harriet Hargrave Machine Quilting Celebration. She now teaches at major quilt shows and at numerous guilds and shops across the country.

This inspiring entrepreneur uses heirloom machine quilting techniques to create quilts that have earned many Best Machine Quilting awards at national competitions. Joanie began the new millennium by returning to school and earned a degree in Graphic design. Through her company, Heirloom Quilting Designs.com, she uses her computer skills to create a line of original and uniquely elegant Quilting Design Collections, is producing a Quilting for Life DVD series, and to date, has authored and illustrated four books sharing her expertise in machine quilting.

Joanie’s workshops target quilters of any skill level. In her hands-on, follow the line free-motion and hand guided background fill pattern workshops, students experience comfort in knowing that classes are never based on prior knowledge or skill. A PowerPoint presentation introduces each topic, illustrated with step-by-step photos of the essential concepts. Time is then allowed to practice these procedures before putting them into action on the original project specifically designed for the targeted skills. Joanie’s Choosing, Using and Adapting Quilting Design class encourages and enables students to add their own unique personality to the function of holding the layers of their quilts together.

Contact Joanie to schedule workshops and lectures targeted to the needs of your group at Joanie@heirloomquiltingdesigns.com.

Visit Joanie’s Website or her YouTube Channel .



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Lee Heinrich

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Lee HeinrichHome: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Co-Author of “Vintage Quilt Revival:22 Modern Designs from Classic Blocks (available December 2013); contributor to “Modern Quilts from The Blogging Universe”

Lee specializes in modern quilting and the “traditional-made-modern” movement. Her Lifesavers quilt took first place in the “Modern Traditionalism – Small Quilts” category at Quilt Con (the first ever national modern quilt show) in February 2013. Her quilts have also been published in Quilt Magazine, Quiltmaker, Fons and Porter’s Easy Quilts, Fat Quarterly e-zine, the Moda Bake Shop, and others. Lee’s blog has more than 3,000 subscribers and generates about 75,000 page views per month.

She offers a 15+ quilt trunk show, a lecture on Modern Traditionalism (what Modern Traditionalism is and how to apply modernizing design strategies to your own quilts), and hands-on classes in her Modern Traditionalism techniques and designs. Visit Lee’s Website

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Wendy Butler Berns

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Wendy_Butler_Berns_(425x640)Home: Lake Mills, Wisconsin

As a published, award winning quilt artist and teacher who found her passion for quilting in 1993, Wendy presents at guilds, retreats, conferences, and on-line nationally and internationally. Enthusiastic and empowering, describe Wendy as a teacher. She is recognized for her unabashed free-motion machine quilting, embellishing and picture image machine appliqué style, use of color and contemporary original designs. Her creative passion and energetic teaching style encourages and inspires students and keeps them coming back for more.

Her work and articles appear in many quilt publications. Her own book, Photo Album Quilts, which unfortunately is out of print, features her machine picture image appliqué process. Wendy has appeared on Quilting Arts TV, Sewing with Nancy Zieman and currently is featured in three online courses on Craftsy.com. She is the 19th recipient of the Jewel Pearce Patterson Teacher’s Scholarship recognizing quilting teachers awarded by Quilts Inc., Houston, Texas. and curated an exhibition of her work and her students titled “Out on a Limb” which traveled throughout the country.

To contact Wendy directly and to find out more information regarding her workshops, lectures and gallery of quilts, please visit Wendy’s website and contact her at wbbquilter @ aol.com





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